Given the huge increase in vehicles over that time, the stat is even more pleasing.
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Given the huge increase in vehicles over that time, the stat is even more pleasing.
Also a lot of Brits know someone who’s emigrated there and the hoops you need to jump through. That and the ‘towing back’ of migrant boats that was in the news a lot when first implemented.
October 17, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Also a lot of Brits know someone who’s emigrated there and the hoops you need to jump through. That and the ‘towing back’ of migrant boats that was in the news a lot when first implemented.
Nope! X is unusable, huge numbers of bots posting BS. OF ‘creators’ advertising their wares. Tonnes of unrelated memes. Together with open racism and random porn. Also, from an efficiency standpoint, it made finding interesting comments a nightmare. If policy is debated in a sewer, leave them to it!
October 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Nope! X is unusable, huge numbers of bots posting BS. OF ‘creators’ advertising their wares. Tonnes of unrelated memes. Together with open racism and random porn. Also, from an efficiency standpoint, it made finding interesting comments a nightmare. If policy is debated in a sewer, leave them to it!
Absolutely nailed that. My retired parents, certainly my father, relatively conservative and wealth conserving mindset. Very against new builds in their backyard, like their views of green fields etc. therefore voted Green last time around. They’d be astonished by their economic agenda!
September 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Absolutely nailed that. My retired parents, certainly my father, relatively conservative and wealth conserving mindset. Very against new builds in their backyard, like their views of green fields etc. therefore voted Green last time around. They’d be astonished by their economic agenda!
Only a risk analysis really, their sales rose and so did their profits, markedly.
September 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Only a risk analysis really, their sales rose and so did their profits, markedly.
They knew what the score was before the election, the IFS certainly called it out. But the promises were still made, then banked at the ballot box. They should stew in the juice of those myopic promises now.
August 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
They knew what the score was before the election, the IFS certainly called it out. But the promises were still made, then banked at the ballot box. They should stew in the juice of those myopic promises now.
How do you tariff services though? Maybe it already happens and I don’t know it… If I get a US based web designer to build my company’s website, how does anybody know that??
July 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
How do you tariff services though? Maybe it already happens and I don’t know it… If I get a US based web designer to build my company’s website, how does anybody know that??
No, indeed I commuted for years by rail myself. Tbf I’m not sure even the new GB Rail will reduce fares, best will in the world. It’s more the sense that any chink of positivity in consumer prices is an opportunity for the government to tax it further. ‘The public are having it too good’ mindset.
June 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
No, indeed I commuted for years by rail myself. Tbf I’m not sure even the new GB Rail will reduce fares, best will in the world. It’s more the sense that any chink of positivity in consumer prices is an opportunity for the government to tax it further. ‘The public are having it too good’ mindset.
It’s putting some a little money back in folks pockets and should be praised by politicians rather than reversed. Making people miserable about their daily expenses shouldn’t be the goal of politics. It’s not written in stone that the UK should always have the highest pump prices, that ain’t a win!
June 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
It’s putting some a little money back in folks pockets and should be praised by politicians rather than reversed. Making people miserable about their daily expenses shouldn’t be the goal of politics. It’s not written in stone that the UK should always have the highest pump prices, that ain’t a win!
Maybe just the interpretation at European level, compared to UK judge’s interpretation of HRA 1998?
June 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Maybe just the interpretation at European level, compared to UK judge’s interpretation of HRA 1998?
They turned out for Brexit, but probably not a great strategy to rely on them outside of that one-off.
June 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
They turned out for Brexit, but probably not a great strategy to rely on them outside of that one-off.
Given that Europeans and others may book some way ahead for long haul. It’s quite possible that these numbers deteriorate substantially further over the next 12 months.
April 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Given that Europeans and others may book some way ahead for long haul. It’s quite possible that these numbers deteriorate substantially further over the next 12 months.
It’s a difference so people will spin it to suit their needs. I’m sure if it were the other way around there’d be a fair bit of noise too, probably more.
April 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
It’s a difference so people will spin it to suit their needs. I’m sure if it were the other way around there’d be a fair bit of noise too, probably more.
They only respect hard power
March 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
They only respect hard power
That line is straight to the point, and surely true. So why the yearning for the US ‘backstop’? Maybe Europe just needs an injection of confidence to do things for themselves again.
March 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
That line is straight to the point, and surely true. So why the yearning for the US ‘backstop’? Maybe Europe just needs an injection of confidence to do things for themselves again.
What did they lose not to?
March 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What did they lose not to?
That is quite extraordinary, no? It’s a sizeable chunk of land, granted, but European countries still spend many €bn’s annually. Can they really not mount a peacekeeping force between them? That would be an astonishing indictment of overall preparedness if not.
February 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
That is quite extraordinary, no? It’s a sizeable chunk of land, granted, but European countries still spend many €bn’s annually. Can they really not mount a peacekeeping force between them? That would be an astonishing indictment of overall preparedness if not.
Ursula VdL has called the EU ‘giants’ on the world stage. It’s time for deeds to match words and step up to this challenge in their back yard.
February 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Ursula VdL has called the EU ‘giants’ on the world stage. It’s time for deeds to match words and step up to this challenge in their back yard.
We only had the choice in the first place, some may say, because the US accepted making up the difference across Europe.
February 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
We only had the choice in the first place, some may say, because the US accepted making up the difference across Europe.
Incredibly NIMBY stance, with millions of recent additional residents, regardless of efficiency improvements, significant increases in housing supply are needed.
January 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Incredibly NIMBY stance, with millions of recent additional residents, regardless of efficiency improvements, significant increases in housing supply are needed.